MAHMUD, I Love U
As Bright as Teletubbies

CLINGING

One whatsApp message goes into Azka's phone. The man who was still sitting at the desk waiting for the next patient, immediately opened a message for him.

One picture in.

Azka noticed the photos that came in her phone. There is a portrait of his wife laughing with one man, Rendra. Azka let out a disappointed sigh, his wife looked happy.

On the other side, the person who sent Azka the photo smiled with satisfaction because her post immediately had a blue tick. The real photo of the three of them_Mayra, Rendra, and Wuni, he managed to cut it as if it was just Mayra and Rendra alone together there. Wuni's position in the photo is indeed quite far. So that it makes the sender of the photo can freely eliminate it.

Azka sighed again. The name of the sender of the message, Lina. The man who was still wearing a white suit with a stethoscope hanging around his neck clucked in confusion. Why would his wife's friend send him a picture he doesn't want to see?

***

📞 "Yank, where are you?" Mayra contacted Azka who said she would be home by 8, but in fact until 11 pm her husband had not yet returned.

📞 "Still in the hospital, Yank," said Azka lying. He was in a coffee shop near his house, alone. The coffee that was starting to cool in front of him was still full. He had not drunk a mouthful of it.

📞 "Oh, so. Until what time is it?"

📞 "Back home soon, really. You just sleep!"

Mayra and Azka each hold the keys to the house. So whenever they arrive, any night, they don't have to wait for each other to open the door.

Azka hung up the phone as Mayra replied 'Yes'.

Azka looked at the coffee in front of her while twirling the lips of the cup with her index finger. His mind floated thinking of the photo Lina sent. Is his wife's heart divided?

***

"Yank?" Azka who had just returned home woke up his wife who apparently slept on the sofa.

"Eh, Hank. Already home?" Mayra's waking up.

When the clock was stopped at number 1, Azka felt guilty for making his wife wait. At 11 he said he would be home soon.

"Why is it here?" Azka asked softly. His wife was not fully aware.

"Wait for you" replied Mayra as she yawned. "There's another emergency patient?"

Azka nodded. He could not lie in front of his wife. That's enough of a nod that he can do. At least it's easier to do than have to say.

"Come, Yuk!"

Both of them walked to the room. Azka led Mayra by holding her shoulder. Worried in case his wife was still not fully aware.

"You want coffee, Yank? Tea?" Mayra offered as she had sat on the bed. Azka was taking off her clothes.

"No need. You just continue to sleep. If you want coffee, I'll make it myself."

Azka passed to the bathroom to clean the body. The coffee purchased earlier was not at all appetizing to drink. Coffee at home?

After Azka took a shower, Mayra fell asleep again. The woman did not read her husband's rather different attitude. Maybe because he was too sleepy.

Azka looked at the face of the wife she loved. He thinks about himself. He looked for possible mistakes he made so that his wife could turn away. Although not yet certain, but in the photo it is obvious Mayranya laughs loosely, happy.

Azka sat on the sofa in the room. He opened his phone again. He examined again the picture of his wife, a line of teeth looks perfect there. Azka's gaze then turned to the white ring that was wrapped around her ring finger. His marriage was only four years old, but his wife was laughing with another man? Azka's heart is tight.

***

"Halooo my dear Lin, ready for battle today??" Mayra greets the woman who is almost every day the first person in Griya.

Today there is a photo shoot in Bukit Hijau. The hill, which is more like Teletubbies park, is on the border of the city, where it is full of colorful flowers. The client who will be taking pictures today is a husband and wife. And Rendra agreed to come.

"A fresh face, it's like people fall in love," said Lina deliberately insinuated, but the insinuated even did not feel.

"Oh yes doong. We have to fall in love every day so that the face always looks chwantihwk." Mayra recited the word 'beautiful' as she pleased.

Lina simply answered him with a contrived smile.

Wuni's voice sounded. Today he came in fine clothes. Green knee-length skirt with long red t-shirt patterned with small flowers. On his head was a yellow bandana banda polkadot, with wide sunglasses in his eyes.

Lina laughed at the appearance of her friend followed by Mayra. But the owner of the eccentric appearance even circled to show off the clothes.

"Hows it? You guys must have been amazed????" Wuni opened her glasses.

Lina and Mayra's laughter grew more bubbling when they saw her friend's purple eyelids mixed with gold.

"Oh Allah, son, where are you going?" Lina spoke in the middle of her laughter. Wuni's red lips were ready to answer.

"Today there's a photo shoot on the Teletubbies Hill right? I deliberately used all the colors of the players. Tinky winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa, Pooooooh," Wuni replied singing the jargon of the 90's children's flagship movie.

Mayra and Lina laughed.

"I want Rendra to take a picture of me. Let the results later I upload to Instagram with the hashtag CO-LOR-FULL." Wuni spelled out every tribe he said.

"Wiiiih????"

The man Wuni meant came. He was no less surprised by his two female friends.

"Cool storm, Wun." Rendra held out both thumbs.

"Yeah dooong. You'll take a picture of me on the hill" Pinta Wuni.

"Don't dream deeeh!" Lina answered cynically.

"I mean???" Wuni doesn't understand.

"Rendra won't take your pictures!" Lina explained firmly.

"Huh?? Why her???" Wuni looked up her head at Rendra. But the man just smiled as he passed.

"What the hell is it?" wuni asked curiously whispering to Lina.

"He just wants to take pictures of the women he likes, you know????" Lina remembered the self she had once asked for in a portrait but was rejected.

Hearing Lina's words, Mayra also remembered something. Rendra used to secretly photograph it. If Lina's words are true that the man is only photographing the woman he likes, then ....

***

Mayra and her friends are on Teletubbies Hill now. Rendra was doing his job photographing a husband and wife who was wearing matching batik clothes that day.

"It's better to see if it's halal, '" Lina muttered.

The work is done, Mayra and Wuni. Now they just sit back and watch Rendra do his job.

"Agree!! How about prewedding? But yes, both romantically. But somehow, this couple looks more maniiiis," said Wuni chimed.

"May, you dooong photo with Azka. Later Rendra the motret. Free!" Lina gave a suggestion that sounded more like a lure.

Lina did deliberately say that sentence to Mayra. She really wants her friend to appear together to make out with her husband in front of Rendra. A couple in front of the portrait of Rendra is very compact and romantic. They join each other, hugging, staring, until kissing. Lina desperately wanted the scene in front of her to be done by Mayra with Azka in front of Rendra.

"Yes, mbak May. It must be so sweet once," Wuni said dramatizing the situation by cupping both hands on her cheeks.

"Hehehe. Maybe sometime, yeah."

Mayra simply answered the standard while deliberately scratching her cheek.

CLINGING.

At his seat, Azka received a message that was immediately opened. Azka is now worried first if there is an incoming message on her phone with the sender's name Lina.

Sure enough, one photo came in on his phone.

📩 'Photos like this dong, Zka with Mayra. Later photographer Griya who photographed.'

Azka looked at the line that Lina sent along with her picture. Photo of Rendra who was photographing a husband and wife in batik.